资源描述:
《[哈!小不列颠]》由会员上传分享,免费在线阅读,更多相关内容在学术论文-天天文库。
1、NotesFromASmallIslandBillBrysonPROLOGUE2CHAPTER ONE10CHAPTER TWO16CHAPTER THREE22CHAPTER FOUR27CHAPTER FIVE32CHAPTER SIX38CHAPTER SEVEN46CHAPTER EIGHT50CHAPTER NINE56CHAPTER TEN60CHAPTER ELEVEN65CHAPTER TWELVE70CHAPTER THIRTEEN75CHAPTER FOURTEEN81CHAPT
2、ER FIFTEEN86CHAPTER SIXTEEN90CHAPTER SEVENTEEN95CHAPTER EIGHTEEN103CHAPTER NINETEEN110CHAPTER TWENTY116CHAPTER TWENTYONE123CHAPTER TWENTYTWO126CHAPTER TWENTYTHREE131CHAPTER TWENTYFOUR139CHAPTER TWENTYFIVE143CHAPTER TWENTYSIX147CHAPTER TWENTYSEVEN152CHAPT
3、ER TWENTYEIGHT159CHAPTER TWENTYNINE163PROLOGUEMY FIRST SIGHT OF ENGLAND WAS ON A FOGGY MARCH NIGHT IN 1973when I arrived on the midnight ferry from Calais. For twenty minutes, the terminal areawas aswarm with activity as cars and lorries poured forth, customs people did their
4、duties, and everyone made for the London road. Then abruptly all was silence and Iwandered through sleeping, lowlit streets threaded with fog, just like in a BulldogDrummond movie. It was rather wonderful having an English town all to myself.The only mildly dismaying thing was th
5、at all the hotels and guesthouses appeared tobe shut up for the night. I walked as far as the rail station, thinking I'd catch a train toLondon, but the station, too, was dark and shuttered. I was standing wondering what to dowhen I noticed a grey light of television filling an u
6、pstairs window of a guesthouse acrossthe road. Hooray, I thought, someone awake, and hastened across, planning humbleapologies to the kindly owner for the lateness of my arrival and imagining a cheeryconversation which included the line, 'Oh, but I couldn't possibly ask you to fe
7、ed me atthis hour. No, honestly well, if you're quite sure it's no trouble, then perhaps just a roastbeef sandwich and a large dill pickle with perhaps some potato salad and a bottle of beer.'The front path was pitch dark and in my eagerness and unfamiliarity with Britishdoorways
8、, I tripped on a step, crashing facefirs